With a heavily bandaged head and a noticeable speech impediment, Peruvian reporter Jaime Núñez del Prado described to fellow journalists how four men stormed into his broadcasting studio on Monday and badly beat him – on the orders, he said, of the local mayor. Núñez del Prado told television cameras he believes Calca Mayor Condori […]

Unidentified men on Wednesday gunned down a Peruvian television presenter outside his home, making him the second journalist murdered in just over a week and the third to be killed in the country this year. The Lima-based Press and Society Institute (IPYS) reported that José Oquendo Reyes, the director and presenter of BTV Channel 45 […]

Prominent Mexican journalist Miguel Angel Lopez Velasco was shot to death along with his wife and son by gunmen who broke into their home in the city of Veracruz early Monday morning. A motive for the murders has not been determined, but Lopez Velasco’s role as the editor of newspaper Notiver established him as a […]

Mexican columnist and reporter Angel Castillo Corona and his 16-year-old son were killed in the early hours of Sunday, 3 July, while driving home. Police informed Mexican newspapers that at around 3:30 am they were intercepted on the Mexico – Santiago – Chalma road, allegedly by carjackers. The journalist was brutally beaten, while his son […]